Through 08.18.10
Tapestry: Weaving In & Out

A collaboration between No Longer Empty and El Museo del Barrio, the exhibition explores the interactions between the building space, a new environmentally-conscious rental building, and its surrounding physical and cultural contexts. Artists grapple with the current state of urban environmentalism, and allow for multiple, subjective experiences to coexist.

Tapestry
245 East 124th Street, NYC

Through 09.25.10
Summer Group Show

Steve DiBenedetto, Leviathan, 2009. colored pencil and acrylic on paper.

Courtesy David Nolan Gallery

Drawings and sculpture made by artists from several generations, each with their own unique approaches to abstraction, are on view. Artists include Richard Artschwager, whose sculptures look like functional objects such as tables and chairs; Steve DiBenedetto, who is inspired by the glass architecture of skyscrapers; Mel Kendrick, who experiments with interior and exterior spaces, presence and voids; and Barry Le Va, who works with commonplace objects such as wood, felt, ball bearings, shards of glass, and chalk dust.

David Nolan Gallery
527 West 29th Street, NYC

Through 12.31.10
Stephen Vitello’s A Bell for Every Minute

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This multi-channel sound installation is a site-specific work commissioned for the High Line. It fills the 14th Street Passage with sound recordings of bells taken from around NYC and beyond. Sounds range from the New York Stock Exchange bell, the historic Dreamland bell days after it was discovered in the water off Coney Island, the United Nation’s Peace Bell, along with everyday and personal sounds.

Creative Time
Exhibit located in the High Line’s 14th Street Passage between W.13th and W.14th Streets

Through 07.31.10
desigNYC

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Alexandra Corazza

DesigNYC, a collective committed to improving life in NYC through good design, celebrates its first 12 projects with an exhibit dedicated to the impact of collaborations. Collaborations include The Broadway Mall Association with Balmori Associates, Joel Sanders, and Domingo Gonzalez Associates; Enterprise Community Partners with Robin Key Landscape Architecture, Sohbr Studio, and Andre Kikoski Architect; and Outstanding Renewal Enterprise: the Lower East Side Ecology Center with Andrew Berman Architect.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd floor, NYC

Through 08.01.10
Cars, Culture and the City

L Motors, 175th Street and Broadway, 1948

Photograph by Gottscho-Schleisner, courtesy Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Like many major cities, NYC has a low per-capita ownership of automobiles. But surprisingly, it has played an essential role in creating today’s car culture; the car has helped, in turn, to shape modern NYC. Visionary drawings and models, historic photographs, films, and advertisements, and a wealth of car memorabilia tell this untold story.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 5th Avenue, NYC

Through 08.14.10
Land Use Survey

Aerial #62, 2002 by Sarah McKenzie

Courtesy Jen Bekman Gallery

This exhibition, with photographs, paintings, and works on paper by 27 artists, functions as a critical appraisal of land use across the country, as a document of the changing landscape vernacular, and as a celebration of the artists who take diverse approaches to capturing this genre.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street, NYC

Through 08.28.10
ECOAESTHETIC: The Tragedy of Beauty

Beizhuanzi II, Siming District, Xiamen, 2004

Sze Tsung Leong

This is an annual summer experience of environmental issues affecting our visual world and spiritual selves. The Tragedy of Beauty focuses on photography of land where the tragedy of the image becomes the aesthetic of the environment.

Exit Art
475 10th Avenue, NYC

Through 09.09.10
Before They Were Parks

Henry I. Stetler Warehouse and Comfort Station (now Bleecker Street Playground),1959.

New York City Parks Photo Archive

More than 100 vintage and contemporary photographs from the NYC Parks Photo Archive and other collections are on view. They may be lush and green now, but at some point in their past, parks may have been warehouses, tenements, estates, reservoirs, landfills, cemeteries, or jails.

The Arsenal Gallery
64th Street and 5th Avenue in Central Park, 3rd Floor, NYC

Through 06.26.10
Cooper Union End of Year Show

Cooper Union End of Year Show.

Sara Jones

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture is exhibiting student works that explores the role of architecture in contemporary culture and society through conceptual and scaled drawings, detailed three-dimensional models, and digital renderings. Proposals range from new projects in NYC to sites in Haiti, Israel, Iran, and elsewhere.

Cooper Union Foundation Building
7 East 7th Street, NYC

Through 07.26.10
Bruno Cals: Horizons

Safra, Digital C-Print.

Courtesy 1500 Gallery

Six architectural photographs by Brazilian photographer Bruno Cals feature images of buildings in São Paulo, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires that explore the limits of two-dimensionality. Cals invokes contrasting themes of possibility versus impossibility, presence versus emptiness, and search versus satisfaction.

1500 Gallery
511 w 25th St. #607, NYC

Through 08.01.10
Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey

Plaster model of Villa Rotonda.

Model by Timothy Richards, Bath, England

A collection of 31 rarely seen drawings by Palladio from the collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects Trust, together with architectural texts and pattern books, highlight the growth of his design sensibility. Early studies and sketches as well as later drawings of villas and other commissioned works are on display. Detailed architectural models, showcasing Palladio’s architectural influence in America, most notably in the work of Thomas Jefferson and in designs for monumental buildings in Washington, DC, are also on view.

Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue, NYC

Through 08.15.10
Antony Gormley: Event Horizon

Event Horizon.

James Ewing

Thirty-one life-size body forms of the artist cast in iron and fiberglass inhabit the pathways and sidewalks of Madison Square Park and the rooftops of buildings in the Flatiron District.

Mad. Sq. Art.
Madison Square Park, NYC

Through 06.26.10
Wendell Castle: Rockin’

Wendell Castle, Ghost Rider, 2010 (Bubinga wood)

Courtesy Barry Friedman Ltd.

This solo exhibition of work by the American designer will feature a group of 12 unique, stack-laminated wood chairs as well as Castle’s first series in polished concrete.

Barry Friedman Ltd.
515 West 26th Street, NYC

Through 06.26.10
Refuge, Five Cities

Courtesy Storefront for Art and Architecture

Bas Princen, a Dutch artist, photographer, and architect by training, documented his travels in five cities of the Middle East and Turkey — Istanbul, Beirut, Amman, Cairo, and Dubai. The exhibition is a documentation of the spatial products of refuge, ranging from migrant worker camps to gated satellite cities in the desert, or the frequent proximity between abject poverty and extreme wealth.

Storefront for Art & Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, NYC

Through 05.28.10
Olivo Barbieri: site specific_NEW YORK CITY 07

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Yancey Richardson Gallery

Italian photographer Olivo Barbieri presents a series of aerial photographs of New York. Using a large format camera with a tilt-and-shift lens, Barbieri renders the grand scale of the city to mere models of themselves.
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street, NYC

05.15.10 through 06.02.10
Second House: The Early Architecture of Harry Bates (1960 – 1970)

Recover House, Amagansett, NY — Built 1967, Renovated 2005

Paul Masi

On view are drawings and photographs of houses by architect Harry Bates that were built on Long Island’s East End and Fire Island during the 1960s. His designs feature large expanses of glass, which contrast to the rough-hewn cedar and cypress wood interiors popular at the time.

Sylvester & Co. At Home
154 Main Street, Amagansett, NY

05.08.10 through 06.26.10
The City We Imagined/The City We Made: New New York 2001-2010

The Architectural League of New York

This exhibition, designed by Moorhead & Moorhead, with graphics by PS New York, documents and examine the physical transformation of NYC in the first decade of the 21st century. Highlights include a timeline of the major architecture and planning milestones and events; 1,000 images documenting NYC throughout the 10 years; and video interviews with a leading New Yorkers.

The Architectural League of New York
Pop-up space at 250 Hudson Street, NYC

Through 10.31.10
Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Don’t, and You Won’t Stop

Big Bambú Installation View, April 2010

Photo by Doug and Mike Starn, © 2010 Mike and Doug Starn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Mike and Doug Starn present a monumental bamboo structure, which will ultimately measure 100 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 50 feet high. It is comprised of a network of 5,000 interlocking 30-and 40-foot-long fresh cut bamboo poles tied together with nylon rope and will take the form of a cresting wave. Visitors will witness the continuing creation and evolving incarnations of Big Bambú as it is constructed throughout the spring, summer, and fall by the artists and a team of rock climbers.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Through 04.30.10
Maya Lin: What is Missing?

Maya Lin, What is Missing? (2010, single channel video, color, no sound, 4:13 min).

Courtesy of Creative Time and the What is Missing? Foundation

A series of four videos about mass extinction precipitated by the degradation of natural habitats will be shown in Times Square. There will be an expanded schedule of screenings on 04.22.10 for Earth Day. Maya Lin is a participant in the Creative Time Global Residency Program, for which she has traveled to diverse parts of the world to connect with disappearing species for this project.

Creative Time
44 1/2-inch screen, Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets, NYC

(various dates)
Parsons Presents 2010 Thesis Exhibitions

Last year’s thesis exhibit

Copyright Martin Seck

April through June, a series of shows in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and venues across Manhattan highlight thesis work by undergraduate and graduate students in its architecture, communication design, design and management, design and technology, fashion design, fine arts, illustration, integrated design, interior design, lighting, photography, and product design programs.

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Through 05.14.10
José Oubrerie

Miller House in Lexington, KY by José Oubrerie

Brian Wilson

On view are French architect and author (and Le Corbusier protégé) José Oubrerie’s best-known works, including the Church of St. Pierre in Firminy, France, and the Miller House in Lexington, KY. In addition, The School is producing the book on Oubrerie’s work that will feature many photos and drawings of the two buildings.

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture (Spitzer School) at The City College of New York
141 Convent Avenue, NYC

Through 05.23.10
Fast Trash: Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Tubes and the Future of Cities

View of the control room and Jerry Sorgente, DSNY stationary engineer in charge of the AVAC facility

Kate Milford

Using Roosevelt Island’s underground garbage collection system as a model, this exhibition attempts to show how we can radically change the way garbage is moved through the city. On view are brochures, advertisements, and other ephemera from Roosevelt Island’s archives, as well as photographs and video interviews of the engineers and technicians at work at Roosevelt Island’s facility.

Gallery RIVAA
527 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, NYC

Through 04.10.10
Two Decades: Envisioning Space

Selected works by current students and alumni from the BFA Interior Design Department over the past 20 years. Divided into six sections — prototypes, renderings, models, and drawings — the exhibition provides a “behind the scenes” glimpse into the creative process of students in the department.

School of Visual Arts

Westside Gallery, 133 West 21 Street, NYC

Through 04.23.10
Ouroboros: The History of the Universe

Video artist Ali Hossaini teams up with artists Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy, aka SWEATSHOPPE, to present the story of cosmic evolution from the Big Bang to Lady Gaga in an immersive 3-D video environment generated by SWEATSHOPPE’s own software.

ISE Cultural Foundation [http://iseny.org/usr_helio1/index.php]

555 Broadway, NYC

Through 05.07.10
Operators’ Exercises: Open Form Film and Architecture

This exhibition explores the surprising and productive relationship between Polish experimental film and architecture in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It traces the evolution of Polish architect Oskar Hansen’s theory of Open Form from its origin in Hansen’s own architectural projects to its application in film, multi-slide projection, visual games, and performative practices.

Columbia University

Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, NYC

Through 05.09.10
Ralph Bakshi: The Streets

Ralph Bakshi’s new series of mixed-media construction/paintings was inspired by the gritty and colorful neighborhoods of his youth in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Animazing Gallery

54 Greene Street, NYC

Through 04.05.10
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary

Peter Matthews, 11 Hours in the Pacific Ocean (detail), December 2007. Ink, water from Pacific Ocean and rust on paper.

Courtesy of the artist

This exhibition explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). Trained as a civil engineer, Xekakis became an architect while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984, this is the first North American exhibition dedicated to Xenakis’s original works on paper. Included are hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores.

The Drawing Center
Main Gallery, 35 Wooster Street, NYC

Through 04.11.10
Diseño Mexicano: Mexican Design

Don Shoemaker X chairs.

Courtesy Sebastian + Barquet

Sebastian + Barquet’s first New York retrospective of Mexican 20th- and 21st-century design includes works by some of the era’s most significant designers. The exhibition showcases six chairs in sabino wood and leather from the Casa Prieto Lopez in El Pedregal by Luis Barragán; a loveseat in Cocobolo and leather from Morelia by the Nebraskan émigré Don Shoemaker; a butterfly mosaic coffee table by Juan O’Gorman; and a prototype “Flex” coffee table made from undulating strips of maple plywood by Emiliano Godoy.

Sebastian + Barquet
544 West 24th Street, NYC

Through 04.17.10
Landscapes of Quarantine

Storefront for Art and Architecture

This exhibition features new works by a multi-disciplinary group of 18 artists, designers, and architects, each of whom was inspired by one or more of the physical, biological, ethical, architectural, social, political, temporal, and even astronomical dimensions of quarantine.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, NYC

Through 05.05.10
Envelopes

“Wanderings,” from environmental design office Weathers founder Sean Lally’s Climate Design series. The work is an exterior infrastructure that can be purchased for private gardens, gardens, public parks, and landscapes to enhance and change the local climate of the site.

Courtesy of Weathers

This exhibition explores new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and also as a sensorial space that envelops the body. On view are full-scale, interactive models accompanied by architectural renderings, computer animations, and process documentation from eight international firms and designers.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC

03.02.10 – 03.08.10
TIMESSQUAREARTS

“Black Sun” by Alexandre Arrechea. Illustration by Arrechea. Ten-minute animation of wrecking ball bouncing of the building. Video runs on NASDAQ screen at 11:50 PM.

Times Square Alliance

As part of the Public Art Program of the Times Square Alliance, several installations will grace Times Square, including: Sofia MalDonado’s “42nd Street Mural,” a 92 x 12 foot mural mounted on a construction fence (through 04.30.10); Alexandre Arrechea’s “Black Sun,” a 10-minute animation of a wrecking ball on the giant NASDAQ screen; and David Ellis and Roberto Lange’s Kinetic Sound Sculpture, a pile of real trash that moves and make sounds.

Times Square Alliance
Times Square, NYC

Through 03.20.10
Olafur Eliasson

Multiple shadow house (2010). Wood, metal, fabric, spotlights, color filter glass, halogen bulb, projection foil and transparent projection foil. Installation view Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY, 02.11-03.20.10.

Photo by Jean Vong, courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

This exhibition consists of a series of rooms, each lit with a bank of lights. The individual lights are different colors, but they create white light when blended on a single wall. As visitors walk in front and block the light sources, colored shadows are revealed.

Tonya Bonakdar Gallery
521 West 21st Street, NYC

Through 03.27.10
Konstantinos Stamatiou: Refused Reused

Konstantinos Stamatiou

An installation, collages, and light boxes made from non-traditional materials create a multilayered labyrinth of social issues and various forms of physical interaction between the art and the viewer.

Black and White Gallery
636 West 28th Street, NYC

Through 04.04.10
Design USA: Contemporary Innovation

LTL. Fluff Bakery, New York, NY, 2004.

Michael Moran

Celebrating the winners honored during the first 10 years of the National Design Awards, this exhibition features the work of the more than 75 award winners for outstanding contemporary achievements in architecture, landscape, interiors, product design, communication design, corporate design, interactive design, and fashion.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, NYC

Through 03.13.10
The Great White Whale is Black

Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Professor and painter/architect Tony Candido presents his visionary idea of the interplay between humanity and the contemporary environment and what the future of architecture could be. The exhibition focuses on Candido’s calligraphic brush and ink paintings and drawings, which have been an important part of his output since 1967.

The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, 2nd floor, NYC

Through 03.21.10
Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

Joel Meyerowitz’s expansive study of NYC’s parks, throughout all five boroughs, comprises an installation that includes large photographic prints, some as large as the gallery walls themselves. The images document the untamed and wild nature of the city’s open spaces, as well as bucolic and pastoral landscapes.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Through 04.03.10
SNØHETTA: architecture — landscape — interior

The work of Snøhetta is featured offering insight into the design and construction of the firm’s most important works. Included are: Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt; the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway; and the planned National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in NYC. On view are films, photographs, drawings, models, and interactive learning devices.

Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue, NYC

Through 04.28.10
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum

The central void of the Guggenheim’s rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and exhibition designs. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the museum invited more than 200 artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, NYC